The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I changed my act because I wasn't getting booked.

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.